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| Connecticut Open | |||||||||
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| Founded | 1948 | ||||||||
| Location |
New Haven, Connecticut United States |
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| Venue | Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center | ||||||||
| Surface | SportMaster Sport Surfaces/Outdoors | ||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||
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| ATP World Tour | |
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| Category |
ATP World Series (1990–1997) ATP International Series (1998–2008) ATP World Tour 250 series (2009–2010) |
| Draw | 48S / 32Q / 16D |
| Prize money | US$750,000 |
| WTA Tour | |
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| Category |
WTA Tier IV (1988–1989) WTA Tier III (1990–1994) WTA Tier II (1997–2008) WTA Premier (2009–current) |
| Draw | 32M / 32Q / 16D |
| Prize money | US$235,000 |
The Connecticut Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is a WTA Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. Until 2010 the tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour. It is held annually at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, just before the fourth and last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open.
The tournament was created in 1948 as the U.S. Women's Hardcourt Championships and first played in Sacramento, California in the United States. Over the twenty years of its first run the event was moved regularly to several U.S. locations including San Francisco, Berkeley, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Washington, La Jolla, San Diego, California and Denver, Colorado. Among the winners of the event were Doris Hart, Darlene Hard, Nancy Richey, Rosemary Casals, Billie Jean King and Jane Bartkowicz. The event was discontinued in 1969 following the beginning of the Open Era.
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